BTS Lectures & Dinner 2012

[Kim Pennell]

Never seem to have the time to socialise properly at the B.T.S. Exhibition, now's your chance!
If you are interested in attending the BTS Lectures please contact: Kim Pennell
Space's are limited so its first come first served. To see what you've missed over the years
have a look at the Gallery section of this web site.

Pre Lectures Get-together
Friday 17th February: dinner, drinks and quiz, meet in the hotel bar
7.30 pm - Ideal if staying on the 2 night package!


BTS Annual General Meeting:
19^th February 11.00am –BTS members only

Venue: Aztec Hotel and Spa, Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol

The Cotswold Suite

Date: 18th February 2012


Ticket price BTS Members (per person):
Lecture and Dinner £40.00
Lectures only £20.00

Ticket price Non members (per person):
Lecture and Dinner £45.00

Lectures only £25.00

Online booking at the new e-store - subject to a fee of 5.5%

Time: 11.00 - 11.30am for registration

Lectures to start: 12 Noon

Lectures to finish: 5.30 pm approx


Dinner to start: 6.30 pm approx



Lecturers: All times approx and subject to change and overruns


12.00 noon : Ray Hale - Opening introduction ice breaker

12.30pm: BTS Committee
1.30pm: BTS Committee


2.30pm: Coffee, Tea and Biscuits

VIP Special Guests:

3.00pm: Marie-Louise Celerier
- The Palm-tree tarantula Stromatopelma griseipes/calceata & other spiders of the Lamto savannah ecosystem in Ivory Coast

4.15pm: Brent E. Hendrixson, Ph.D. - A Renaissance in Theraphosid Systematics - Case Studies in the North American Genus Aphonopelma

5.30pm: Lectures finish.



Dinner at 6.30pm until late (or until you drop).


MENU: Roast Sirloin of Beef, Yorkshire pudding & beef gravy, Gammon Joint with Pineapple, Nut Roast (v), selection of vegetables, salads, jacket potatoes, chips & breads.

Chocolate and Praline Cream Profiteroles or New York Baked Cheesecake

If you have any special dietary requirements please inform me at time of booking.

After Dinner Talk - Andrew M Smith 



Also we have been given a special room rate for overnight stays if anyone is interested cost being:


Saturday night only
£103 per double room

£80 per single room


This price includes full use of the leisure facilities and breakfast.

Payment on checkout by yourselves.


Friday and Saturday Special
Friday night Dinner, Saturday, Sunday Bed & Breakfast 

Total cost for the weekend stay.
Single £157.00 or Double / twin £225.00

If you wish to stay please can you let me know as soon as possible so I can book a room for you? 



If you would like to bring guests who may not necessarily like to come to the lecture but would like to have dinner with us this can also be arranged, the hotel will gladly allow the use of their facilities whilst the lectures are in progress. The cost for this would be £26.00 for the dinner only.

Lodge on the Park: This is next door to the Aztec Hotel; if you wish to stay here you will need to arrange this yourselves.

Payment details-

You will need to book your place by the 12 January 2012 and payment must be received no later than the 12th January 2012 book online with the bts online estore
You do not have to a member of the BTS to attend. Under 16’s are welcome but must to properly supervised at all times. All Dinner and lecture tickets by advance bookings only. Refunds on cancelled places before December 31st will incur a small admin charge.
No refunds can be given after Jan 16th 2012.

NOTE: The selling of tarantulas is strictly forbidden, you may exchange or swap tarantulas. So it’s an ideal place to pass on males etc. The use of video equipment during the lectures will be restricted to official use only. Photographs are permitted within reason. Any live tarantulas must not be visible to the public and other hotel guests.

Prices and times are subject to change without prior notice.


Kim Pennell

B.T.S. Lectures and Dinner Organiser


You can book your places via the BTS e-store using the tab at the top of this forum.

[Kim Pennell]

VIP Guest INFO

Here is some information on our VIP Guest

Marie-Louise Celerier

Presenting her lecture on:
The Palm-tree tarantula Stromatopelma griseipes/calceata and other spiders of the Lamto savannah ecosystem in Ivory Coast

Since 2006 I am a retired Professor of the Universities in Biology and Ecolog -Physiology , so I was a researcher and also a teacher all along my career . I took part in the ecological study of an African savannah ecosystem initiated by Professor Maxime Lamotte and so beginning in 1968 I shared the study of the spiders of the Lamto savannah from Ivory Coast with Patrick Blandin through our thesis. I have been in Lamto during all the summer 1971 to learn more about species characteristics of the savannah in their wild environment, to capture spiders and to try to breed them. I came back to France with numerous spiders and then I worked under laboratory conditions at the University of Paris 6. I worked at the individuals level comparing the energy budgets of different species and my colleague worked at the populations level then we integrated our results toward the ecosystem to try to understand the place and role of the spiders in the savannah. I kept the Stromatopelma tarantulas at the end of the study because I wished to let them to continue their life cycle in captivity and to know more about their growth, reproduction etc., but I also began to be involved in researches on saprophagous as woodlice and centipedes in teams studying ecology of forest ecosystems around Paris . In the same time breeders of tarantulas offered me spiders and I also received animals from customs seizures arriving to the National Natural History Museum of Paris . As a consequence I bred different species of tarantulas from Africa,South America and Asia and then appeared very stimulating opportunities of collaboration with chemists and biochemists to study the venoms and toxins of tarantulas .

Regards
Marie-Lousie Celerier




Regards
Kim
More information on other lectures to follow

[Mark Pennell]

Just Confirmed

We please to announce that

Brent E. Hendrixson, Ph.D.
will be presenting his lecture on
A Renaissance in Theraphosid Systematics - Case Studies in the North American Genus Aphonopelma


Dr. Brent E. Hendrixson is Assistant Professor of Biology at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He studies the systematics, taxonomy, evolution, biogeography, and conservation of North American tarantulas. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation (USA).


Regards
Kim and Mark